Evaluation report looking at all projects that received funding
from the Life Chances Fund (LCF).
Life Chances Fund final report:
Executive summary
Life Chances Fund final report:
The Life Chances Fund performance
Achieving outcomes: Life Chances
Fund final report
Details
This report covers all 29 projects which received funding from
the Life Chances Fund (LCF). It is a project-level evaluation,
which studies projects' characteristics and performance focusing
on outcome achievements and payments.
The LCF ran from 2016 to 2025 as a locally-led Social Outcomes
Partnerships (SOP) fund to tackle entrenched social issues across
England. The LCF contributed to SOP projects through payments by
results contracts. These contracts involved social investors and
were locally commissioned. DCMS worked with the Government
Outcomes Lab (GO Lab) to evaluate the LCF and the use of SOPs in
local commissioning.
This report studies project characteristics, the LCF application
process, and project performance across the portfolio. This
report follows the LCF introductory primary
evaluation report, which focused on the LCF projects'
application process and early COVID-19 adaptations, and the
LCF intermediate data
release, which presented the analysis from a longitudinal
survey of LCF providers, commissioners, social investors and
intermediaries.
This final report aims to describe the performance of the LCF
projects in terms of outcomes achievements and payments and is
accompanied by a separate analysis of a longitudinal survey of LCF
providers and commissioners
